Evertsson’s research focus on gender inequalities in the home and in the labor market. She analyses the gendered division of paid and unpaid work and the degree to which family leave policies and career interruptions influence women's and men's labor market outcomes.

Currently, she studies the transition to parenthood and the division of care and paid work in different-sex and same-sex couples in Sweden and the Nordic countries, the Netherlands and the US. This research is made possible with the European Research Council Consolidator Grant; GENPARENT (ERC CoG # 771770). The Swedish part of the project is also supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte Dnr. 2014-2347).

In an internationally comparative project, she studies how the transition to parenthood is structured by family policies and gender ideology. The Transparent project is part of a cross-national collaboration including Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Poland and the Czech Repbulic. Evertsson is coordinating the network together with Prof. Daniela Grunow, Goethe University of Frankfurt and the first edited volume is published by Edward Elgar; Couples' Transitions to Parenthood: Analysing Gender and Work in Europe.

Projects

This project is the first to apply an inclusive, internationallycomparative, multi-methods approach to families to reveal the complex processesthat result in a gendered division of work. We do this by comparingdifferent-sex couples (DSC) to same-sex couples (SSC) focusin...

This project focuses on the transition to parenthood as a critical juncture in producing gender inequalities in the labor market. Women’s and men’s work and wage careers develop in a similar manner until the couple has children. After this, women’s wage development and career ...

This project focuses on the transition to parenthood as a critical juncture in producing gender inequalities in the labor market. Women’s and men’s work and wage careers develop in a similar manner until the couple has children. After this, women’s wage development and career ...

As part of an international collaboration, this project studies how dual earner couples negotiate and decide about the division of paid and unpaid work and how these processes and outcomes differ across welfare regimes. By combining qualitative interviews with quantitative method...

Collaborating with

Ann-Zofie Duvander is associate professor of Sociology and Demography. Her research interests include family policy, family dynamics as well as the family and work-connection. She is an expert on parental leave policies in Sweden, with a special focus on leave taken by fathers...